Buildings[]

A tower house, the oldest part being the tower, with later alterations and additions, including a hall. The building is in sandstone, the tower is on a chamferedplinth, and has a band, three storeys, and an embattledparapet with turrets at the corners. It contains a mullioned and transomed window with a chamfered surround in the ground floor and a smaller window above. The hall to the right has a roof of sandstone slate, two storeys and five bays. The doorway has a segmental head, and the windows vary; some are mullioned and transomed, some have ogee heads, there is a 20th-century casement window, and above some are hood moulds.[2][3]

The farm buildings were extended and altered in the 16th and 19th centuries, and form two sides of a courtyard. They are in sandstone with roofs partly of green slate and partly of sandstone slate; they are partly battlemented and incorporate a watch tower. The east range has three bays, and links to the hall, and the north range has two storeys and seven bays. The buildings contain archways, doorways, windows, and external steps leading to loft doorways.[4][5]

The house was altered in 1751, and a rear extension was added in the 19th century. It is roughcast, and has a Welsh slate roof, two storeys, and three bays. The central doorway has a dated and inscribed lintel, above it is an inscribed and dated panel, and the windows have chamfered stone surrounds.[9]

Originally two houses, the later one dating probably from the early 18th century, subsequently converted into a public house. It is roughcast with Welsh slate roofs and two storeys, the right part being higher. Both parts have two bays, and at the rear are an outshut and a single-storey single-bay extension. In the ground floor of the left part are sash windows in stone surrounds, and in the upper floor the windows are casements in chamfered surrounds. Most of the windows in the right part are sashes, with one mullioned window.[10]

A farmhouse that was altered in the 19th century, it is roughcast with quoins, and a green slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The central doorway has an architrave, above it is a coat of arms, and the windows are sashes in stone architraves.[6][12]

Originally a public house and a private house, later joined to form a hotel. The building is rendered on a chamferedplinth, with two storeys and green slate roofs. The former public house to the left has seven bays, a doorway with a rusticated surround, and three cantedbay windows, one with two storeys. The former house has rusticated quoins and three bays. The two parts are joined by a single-bay recessed link. All the windows are sashes.[6][13]

A rendered house with a slate roof, two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a doorway with a chamfered surround and a pointed head, and above it is a window with a pointed head. The other windows on the front are mullioned with flat heads. There are more windows with pointed heads on the left return and at the rear.[14]

The barn is in pink sandstone with red sandstone dressings, and has a green slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. It contains a large segmental-arched cart entrance, doors in stone surrounds, square vents, and external steps leading to a loft door.[15]

The two barns, at right angles, are in sandstone with quoins, and green slate roofs, partly hipped. The north barn has two storeys and four bays, and contains four segmental-headed doorways, one converted into a casement window, and a central segmental-arched loft doorway flanked by ventilation slits. The east barn has seven bays, three segmental-headed doorways converted into casement windows flanked by flat-headed doorways.[16]

The walls and piers are in calciferous sandstone. The walls are in an L-shape on a chamferedplinth, they have mouldedcopings, and carry patterned cast iron railings. The piers flanking the main gate, the pedestrian gate, and the entrance to a track are hexagonal, the gate piers have shaped caps, and the piers at the entrance to the track have pyramidal caps.[6][19]

The memorial was erected to commemorate two local men who were killed in the Boer War. It stands in the corner of a field at a road junction, and is in Westmorland green stone. The memorial consists of a Celtic Cross on a rectangular pedestal standing on a base of two square steps. The front of the cross face and the upper part of the shaft have carved decorations, and on the lower part of the shaft are portraits of the two men in bronze medallions. There are inscriptions on the front of the pedestal and the base, and on the side of the pedestal are the names of three men lost in the Second World War.[6][20]